Undersea Warfare Applied Res

Abstract

The activities described in this program element (PE) address future Navy and Marine Corps capabilities needed to maintain maritime superiority and ensure national security. They are based on input from Naval Research Enterprise stakeholders (including the Naval enterprises, the combatant commands, OPNAV and Headquarters Marine Corps) and are designed to exploit breakthroughs in science and technology in order to deliver maximum warfighting benefit to our sailors and marines. These efforts are aligned with shared priorities throughout the whole of RDT&E in order to quickly advance new capabilities from discovery to deployment across the warfighting domains. This PE funds applied research efforts in undersea target detection, classification, localization, tracking, and neutralization. Technologies being developed within this PE are aimed at enabling Sea Shield, one of the core operational concepts detailed in the Naval Transformational Roadmap. Associated efforts focus on new Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) operational concepts that promise to improve wide-area surveillance, detection, localization, tracking, and attack capabilities against quiet adversary submarines operating in noisy and cluttered shallow water environments. Related efforts are aimed at leveraging technologies that will protect the country's current capital investment in surveillance, submarine, surface ship, and air ASW assets. Research focused on understanding the impacts on marine mammals of manmade underwater sound is also conducted in the Program Element , as well as continuing support to research vessels of the U.S. Academic Research Fleet for operations and maintenance that enable applied research at sea. Due to the number of efforts in this PE, the programs described herein are representative of the work included in this PE.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2019
• Source ID: 0602747N_2_1319_PB_2019
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2018 to FY 2019 funding increase represents increased investment and research associated with new sensor concepts to provide improved performance in smaller packages; automated passive acoustic & non-acoustic detection and classification algorithms to eliminate the dependence on traditional Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) platforms; undersea communications; secure and robust networking of autonomous sensors; and knowledge and exploitation of complex operational environment. The FY 2019 funding request was reduced by $0.124 million to reflect the Department of Navy's effort to support the Office of Management and Budget directed reforms for Efficiency and Effectiveness that include a lean, accountable, more efficient government. Technical: Not applicable. Schedule: Not applicable.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Biomedical
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acoustic Detection
• Active Sonar
• Algorithms
• Antisubmarine Warfare
• Capital Investments
• Detection
• Detectors
• Electric Fields
• Magnetic Detectors
• Optical Detection
• Signal Processing
• Submarine Warfare
• Target Detection
• Undersea Warfare
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Environmental science

Readers

• Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.